'The more we have terror cells, the more we need prayer groups' 
A team of prayer warriors is setting up a series of events to call up the heavy-duty artillery in the world's battle with terrorism, scheduling events of prayer and fasting for Oct. 5-13.
"The more we have these terrorist cells all around the country, all around the world," said Marueen Flynn, of International Week of Prayer and Fasting Coalition, "the more we need to counteract with prayer groups.
"We call it the Prayer Network of Counter-terrorism," she said.
Flynn says the Coalition organizes prayers for world peace, works to promote pro-life issues – just another form of terrorism, according to the organization – and sets up "prayer cells" to counter "terror cells" around the world.  
Citing the Mark 9:29 reference that: "Certain evil spirits can only be driven out by prayer and fasting," the group has announced plans for its 15th annual International Week of Prayer and Fasting starting Oct. 5.
In order to continue toward its goals of a conversion of nations, an end to abortion and the assembly of a culture of life, the group is planning a Youth and Young Adult Festival at Catholic ...   more »

Says GOP risks loss by ridiculing questions about 'North American Union'
Jerome Corsi
Speaking yesterday in St. Louis at Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Council meeting, WND staff reporter Jerome Corsi predicted the Republican Party risks losing the 2008 presidential election and two-thirds of the House and the Senate if President Bush continues to ridicule questions about a possible North American Union as "conspiracy theories" while continuing to press an active integration with Mexico and Canada in the remaining months of his second term.
Calling Karl Rove the architect not only of the Republican electoral victory in 2004 but also of the Republican electoral defeat in 2006, Corsi told the group the main issue was immigration.
"Yes, the war in Iraq was an issue in 2006," Corsi acknowledged, "but even Richard Nixon won a landslide in 1972 despite the growing unpopularity of the Vietnam War. The Democrats will lose any time they run a far-left anti-war electoral campaign."
C-span's Book-TV recorded Corsi's presentation for later broadcast.
Corsi asserted in 2006 "grassroots Americans voted against open borders and illegal immigration, whether Karl Rove or the Republican National Party want to admit it, or not."
"Every time President Bush pushes to have Mexican trucks ...   more »

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THE United States Air Force has set up a highly confidential strategic planning group tasked with “fighting the next war” as tensions rise with Iran.
Project Checkmate, a successor to the group that planned the 1991 Gulf War’s air campaign, was quietly reestablished at the Pentagon in June.
It reports directly to General Michael Moseley, the US Air Force chief, and consists of 20-30 top air force officers and defence and cyberspace experts with ready access to the White House, the CIA and other intelligence agencies.
Checkmate’s job is to add a dash of brilliance to Air Force thinking by countering the military’s tendency to “fight the last war” and by providing innovative strategies for warfighting and assessing future needs for air, space and cyberwarfare.
It is led by Brigadier-General Lawrence “Stutz” Stutzriem, who is considered one of the brightest air force generals. He is assisted by Dr Lani Kass, a former Israeli military officer and expert on cyberwarfare.
The failure of United Nations sanctions to ...   more »

By Shlomo Shamir 
NEW YORK - Elected local officials and civic leaders plan to demonstrate Sunday outside Columbia University, where Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was scheduled to speak at a forum on Monday.
More protests were to follow Monday near Columbia and the United Nations, where the Ahmadinejad was to address the General Assembly on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, Columbia University's heads are resisting pressure to cancel a scheduled on-campus appearance by Ahmadinejad, who has made statements questioning the Holocaust and calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map."    
Columbia University President Lee Bollinger on Friday defended the initiative to invite Ahmadinejad to speak by saying that the university had extended the invitation only after the president agreed to give equal time for questions. Bollinger said he planned on presenting Ahmadinejad with a number of pointed and challenging questions.
While some public officials have called for Columbia to change its mind about the visit, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has said that the visit is an internal matter.
A Columbia professor who is an Iran expert and was among those behind the initiative told the media on Friday that he believed it was important to invite Ahmadinejad to speak, since ...   more »

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
He's coming to New York.
I can't believe it.
Six years into our "war on terrorism," Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a strategic ally of al-Qaida, is flying into New York to speak at the United Nations.
Much of the controversy over this trip has focused on whether his request to visit Ground Zero should be honored. That, to me, is a distraction from the real issue – should he be allowed to visit New York under any circumstances, and, if he is, what should be done with him when he arrives.
My preference would be to let him come, then have he and his entire entourage handcuffed and frog-marched into custody after which they would be transported to Gitmo as enemy combatants. But that's just me.  
Let's look at this rationally.
Iran is undeniably a strategic ally of al-Qaida. Even if it weren't, it shares Osama bin Laden's objectives of destroying both Israel and the United States by any means necessary.
Ahmadinejad is the personification of this anti-American and anti-Semitic policy of hatred and violence.
The Iranian president will not be coming alone. He will be accompanied by Iranian intelligence agents whose goal will be to seek ...   more »

3 years after Beslan slaughter, U.S. educators still unprepared 
WASHINGTON – Three years after Muslim terrorists attacked a school in Beslan in North Ossetia-Alania within the Russian Federation resulting in 396 deaths and 437 injuries, terrorism and law enforcement experts say most U.S. schools have not prepared at all to deal with the possibility of such an assault.
More disturbingly, they say, such attacks are most definitely being prepared and rehearsed in Islamic terrorist camps around the world.
In videotapes captured in Afghanistan, al-Qaida terrorists practiced the takeover of a school – issuing commands in English, separating children into manageable groups and killing anyone who offered resistance. Some hostages were take to rooftops, dangled over the edge, then shot for the sake of cameras and onlookers.
In Iraq, the floor plans of several schools in Virginia, Texas and New Jersey were found in the possession of captured terrorists.
Meanwhile, in the U.S. law enforcement authorities have uncovered what appear to be probing missions by terrorists attempting to get jobs as school bus drivers and making inquiries about armed security personnel in schools.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman has been attempting to get local law enforcement training for ...   more »

Arab ownership of U.S. stock exchange raises flag in Congress
By Jerome R. Corsi
In a complex set of transactions, Dubai is moving to acquire 19.9 percent of the Nasdaq in New York, placing the Arab government in an ownership position of the key U.S. stock exchange and raising concerns in Congress.
As a result of the transaction, Dubai also will acquire 28 percent of the London Stock Exchange, one of the oldest and largest in the world.
The transaction is being made through Borse Dubai, a holding company 100-percent owned by the government of the Emirate of Dubai and controlled by Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the head of the Dubai ruling family.
According to its website, Borse Dubai was created Aug. 6 as the holding company for Dubai Financial Market and Dubai International Financial Exchange in a move to consolidate the Dubai government's two stock exchanges "as well as current investments in other exchanges, expanding Dubai's position as a global capital market hub."  
The announcement set off a firestorm of criticism in Washington, prompting President Bush to comment today in a news conference, "We're going to take a good look at it, as to whether or not it ...   more »